What is the airport BER is planning to do with Terminal 2

The main terminal of the BER is for the opening too small. In a rush, will be built in Berlin, therefore, an additional Terminal 2. This is made possible by a simple construction.

BER-Chef Engelbert Lütke Daldrup is certain: by the end of 2020, the new capital airport will go to the Start. Actually, the opening had been planned originally for 2007 and later, for the fall of 2011. But even if it should really – in the new Airport Berlin-Brandenburg is already pretty tight.

The main terminal has been calculated to pay for the Other passenger as they are to be expected according to the latest planning. So the Start is, to within a very Short time, a temporary additional terminal from the ground Terminal 2 are trudging to help out at the Start already.

Ready before the opening

Also on the adjacent Schönefeld airport expansion should provide measures to ensure that the nine years suspended opening date must be postponed once more. Lütke Daldrup was passed Friday (14. December), the recently-initiated repair measures in the case of an appointment in person. Within less than two years the new Terminal 2 should be ready – even before the official opening, he said.

In June of this year, the Berlin airport company received the building permit, last October already started with the construction work. As the side wing T2 is located directly next to the Terminal 1, and passengers on a Pier at the Northern Gates. Six million passengers it can handle yearly. In particular, passengers of low-cost carriers are here to do Check-in, baggage and security checks.

Debacle prevent

Despite the tight time schedule and the previous breakdown series Lütke Daldrup is this Time confident of being able to get the new building ready on time. To do this, the much simpler architecture and the simple design of the new building. While the main terminal is decorated with a large façade of glass and complicated ventilation systems in the basements caused the debacle of the opening date, the Terminal 2 a to the simple, from the industrial building taken building construction without a basement. All technical installations are located on the roof of the metal-lined building.

Old error wants to prevent Lütke Daldrup: "We have undertaken to build for the Expansion of simpler buildings, which are less technically demanding. Thus, the risks remain manageable". The Spartan building can rise concept, proven to be the project Manager on the North side of the BER premises. After the same principle has been already built the new Terminal, the flight readiness.. time and costs were according to the Management, in the frame.

SXF to Terminal 5

However, even if it should come to delays in the BER at Terminal 2, Lütke Daldrup confident when it comes to the planned opening date. "The 22 million passengers that we handle today in Berlin-Tegel, we can handle easily in the Terminal 1". The city planner refers to recent Simulations. He hopes but still the Best: "We need the Terminal 2, therefore, is not mandatory, however, it would be nice to have it opening already."

While Berlin-Tegel, with the commissioning of the new airport according to the master plan unnecessary, is factored in the flight operations at Berlin-Schönefeld until 2025. As the new Terminal 5 building of the former East-Berlin airport as an additional Low-cost Terminal for the BER. Also for this Expansion were begun-Work, modernizations of older departure halls to prepare Schönefeld for the not-too-new task. Already today, the lifting of most of the planes from low-cost airlines.

You can see in the above image gallery images of the construction of Terminal 2

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